Greece sees migrant surge amid Libya-Turkey push for Mediterranean energy expansion
More than 5,000 migrants from Libya have landed on Crete and Gavdos since June, prompting EU chief Ursula von
More than 170 people who migrated from Benin to Tunisia have returned home on a voluntary charter flight, the UN's migration agency said on Wednesday.
Migrants from sub-Saharan Africa have faced a hostile reception in Tunisia,
a major transit point for those hoping to make the dangerous sea crossing to
Europe.
After President Kais Saied said last year that "hordes of illegal migrants"
posed a demographic threat to Tunisia, anti-migrant violence broke out and
hundreds of sub-Saharan Africans were kicked out of their jobs and homes.
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